Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contemptuous. After that, Clayton's decisions developed a more progressive tone. He put a stop to the harassment of Negroes seeking to register to vote in one town; he ordered a circuit clerk in an other to stop applying stricter voting requirements for Negroes than for whites; he knocked down a third town's ordinance restricting Negro marches and demonstrations; he voided, as a member of a three-judge panel, application of the state's poll tax in state and local elections. "When you are able to show him a set of outrageous facts, then he loses...
...STOP-TIME by Frank Conroy. 304 pages. Viking...
...Peter De Vries once said, is a safe with the combination locked inside, and he always plays a numbers game, hoping to open it up and get at the inner meaning. It is just as well that the operative click never comes, because when it does, De Vries will stop being desperately funny and become plain desperate. The thing to remember as the puns cascade down the pages is that his characters (and he, too) would rather keep their earthly uncertainties than lose the capacity to keep trying for something better...
...opinion is that not only arbitrary law enforcement, but also the laws that lend themselves to it, deserve close judicial scrutiny. In this context, the long-standing practice of holding persons on suspicion of having committed a felony becomes highly questionable. So, probably, does the Commonwealth's recently enacted stop-and-frisk...
Starting from their own 35, Hornblower and Gatto alternated carries to move the ball to the Brown 45. Then Zimmerman found the agile Lord open at the Brown 23, where Bruin Joe Petrucelli made the stop...